Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

I am a socially awkward mandork. (Nick)

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love